Jia Johnson brings extensive experience across nonprofit, corporate, and community collaborations. She is the passionate founder and CEO of Freedom Dream Collective, LLC, a dynamic coaching and consulting firm dedicated to fostering the growth and well-being of individuals and communities. She is also the founder of Freedom to Flourish, nonprofit, committed to offering professional development series underserved BIPOC changemakers.  

 

Jia takes a holistic coaching approach, addressing the interconnected well-being of clients and partnering with them to create sustainable practices for holistic, transformative change. She supports her clients in taking constant action towards what they care about most by aligning their values and longing with who they want to become. 

 

In recent years Johnson was the founding director of the Solidarity Building Initiative for Liberative Carceral Education at McCormick Theological Seminary, higher education in jail program, and adjunct, facilitating courses and workshops on spiritual activism and social change. 

 

Jia holds a Master of Arts in Public Ministry from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She is a graduate of the Inner Glow Circle coach training program. She is a International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC). 
 

She completed the Mind-Body somatic Coaching Certification at The Embodiment Lab in 2024.  Jia is a Level 2 Shamanic Reiki Practitioner from the linage of Sista Shamon, a Level 1 Tantra Meditation Guide form the lineage of Tracee Stanley, and a grief tender, from the lineage of Francis Weller. Additionally, she completed the Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate and Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery from The Embody Lab.

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